Reference Guide

1548 Beginner’s guide to Cakewalk software
MIDI
If your interface only has one output, and you chain several instruments to that output by using the
MIDI THRU ports on the instruments, you can use the individual instruments’ own control panels to
choose what MIDI channels they will respond to. That way, an instrument can ignore any notes or
other messages that are meant for a different instrument on the chain. This setting is usually called
MIDI Receive, and might be abbreviated on an instrument’s control panel as MIDI RX.
Since most projects have several tracks in them, and each track is usually assigned to a different
sound, how do you control what sound you hear when you press a key on your MIDI controller?
In Cakewalk programs, one of your tracks is always highlighted, because it has the focus. Whatever
track you click grabs the focus, and the sound that’s selected for that track will sound when you play
your keyboard.
For more information, see:
“Audio” on page 1549
“Audio hardware (sound cards) and drivers” on page 1564
“MIDI channels, interfaces, inputs, and outputs” on page 1542
“MIDI drivers” on page 1544
“MIDI files, projects, tracks, and clips” on page 1545
“Controlling which sounds you hear” on page 1547
“MIDI” on page 1541